Henry Kolker
Born: 1874-11-12 in Berlin, Germany
Died: 1947-07-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874) [some sources 1870] Berlin, Prussia, Germany – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director. Kolker came to America at the age of five and his family settled in Quincy, Illinois. Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial stage career behind him before entering silent films. On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker is best remembered for his motion picture appearances and for appearing with Barbara Stanwyck in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film Baby Face (1933) as the elderly CEO of the company whom Stanwyck's character seduces. Another well remembered part is as Mr. Seton, father of Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in the 1938 film Holiday directed by George Cukor. Kolker entered films as an actor in 1915 and eventually ended up trying his hand at directing. Kolker's best known directorial effort is Disraeli (1921), starring George Arliss which is now a lost film with only one reel remaining. Prints however exist in Europe and Russia.
Filmography
1944
- Bluebeard as Deschamps
1943
- Sarong Girl as Jefferson Baxter
1942
- Reunion in France as General Bartholomew (uncredited)
1941
- A Woman's Face as Judge
- The Man Who Lost Himself as T.J. Mulhausen
- The Great Swindle as Stewart Cordell
- The Parson of Panamint as Judge Arnold Mason
- Las Vegas Nights as William Stevens Sr.
- Sing for Your Supper as Myron T. Hayworth
1940
- Grand Ole Opry as William C. Scully
- Money and the Woman as Mr. Rollins
1939
- Union Pacific as Asa M. Barrows
- Let Us Live as Chief of Police
- The Real Glory as The General
- These Glamour Girls as Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
- Main Street Lawyer as Donnelly, District Attorney
- Parents on Trial as James Wesley
- Here I Am a Stranger as R.J. Bennett
- Hidden Power as Weston
1938
- Marie Antoinette as Court Aide (uncredited)
- Holiday as Edward Seton
- The Cowboy and the Lady as Horace Smith
- Too Hot to Handle as Pearly Todd
- The Adventures of Marco Polo as Nicolo Polo
- Love Is a Headache as Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
- Safety in Numbers as Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
- The Invisible Menace as Col. Hackett
1937
- Let Them Live as Judge Lederer
- Green Light as Dr. Lane
- Maid of Salem as Crown Chief Justice Laughton
- Once a Doctor as Bruce Nordland
- They Wanted to Marry as Mr. Hunter
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry as "Doc" Godfrey
- The Devil Is Driving as Charles Stevens
- Under Cover of Night as District Attorney Pritchard
1936
- Romeo and Juliet as Friar Laurence
- My Marriage as Maj. Vaile
- Bullets or Ballots as Mr. Hollister
- The Man Who Lived Twice as Judge Treacher
- Collegiate as Mr. MacGregor
- Great Guy as Abel Canning
- Theodora Goes Wild as Jonathan Grant
- Sitting on the Moon as Worthington
1935
- Society Doctor as Dr. Harvey
- I Live My Life as Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)
- Mad Love as Prefect Rosset
- The Black Room as Baron de Berghman
- 3 Kids and a Queen as Crippet
- Reckless as Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)
- Diamond Jim as J.C. Randolf - Bank President
- The Last Days of Pompeii as Warder (uncredited)
- Charlie Chan in Paris as Paul Lamartine
- Times Square Lady as Mr. Fielding
- Go Into Your Dance as Doctor
- The Mystery Man as Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas
- The Florentine Dagger as Auctioneer
- One New York Night as Arthur Carlisle
- Shipmates Forever as Doctor (uncredited)
- A Dog of Flanders as Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited)
- Red Salute as Dean
- Here Comes the Band as Simmon's Attorney
- The Case of the Curious Bride as District Attorney Stacey
- Spring Tonic as Mr. Enix
- Honeymoon Limited as Mr. Randall
- Red Hot Tires as Martin Sanford
- Frisco Waterfront as District Attorney
1934
- Wonder Bar as R. H. Renaud
- Imitation of Life as Dr. Preston (uncredited)
- A Lost Lady as John Ormsby
- Now and Forever as Mr. Clark
- Sisters Under the Skin as Jones
- Black Moon as The Psychiatrist
- Let's Try Again as Mr. Blake
- The Hell Cat as C.W. Sloane
- Blind Date as J.W. Hartwell Sr.
- She Loves Me Not as Charles M. Lawton
- Sing Sing Nights as Kurt Nordon
- Let's Talk It Over as Doctor
- I've Got Your Number as Lawyer Robert Kirkland
- The Girl from Missouri as Senator Titcombe
- Whom the Gods Destroy as Carlo - the Puppeteer
- Bedside as Maritza's Manager
- Love Time as Emperor Francis I
- Journal of a Crime as Henri Marcher
- One Exciting Adventure as Customer, Oscar
- Name the Woman as Judge Adams
- Success at Any Price as Hatfield
- Lady by Choice as Opper
- Million Dollar Ransom as Dr. Davis (Uncredited)
- The Ghost Walks as Dr. Kent
- The Band Plays On as Professor Hackett
1933
- Baby Face as J.R. Carter
- Hello, Sister! as Jameson Brewster - Bank President
- Meet the Baron as Baron Munchausen
- Blood Money as Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)
- I Loved a Woman as Mr. Sanborn
- Bureau of Missing Persons as Theodore Arno
- The Keyhole as Schuyler Brooks
- Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! as The Judge
- A Bedtime Story as Agent de Police
- The Power and the Glory as Mr. Borden
- The Narrow Corner as Mr. Blake, Fred's Father
- Notorious But Nice as Defense Attorney Clark
- Golden Harvest as Henry Flint
- Gigolettes of Paris as Police Interrogator
1932
- Jewel Robbery as Baron Franz Hohenfels
- Devil and the Deep as Hutton
- Rasputin and the Empress as Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
- Faithless as Mr. Carter
- The Washington Masquerade as Stapleton
- The Crash as John Fair
- The First Year as Peter Barstow
1931
- The Unholy Garden as Col. Lautrac
- The Yellow Ticket as Passport Clerk
- Quick Millions as District Attorney (uncredited)
- Don't Bet on Women as Butterfield (uncredited)
- I Like Your Nerve as Areal Pacheco
- Indiscreet as Mr. Woodward
- The Spy as Tchijinski
1930
- Abraham Lincoln as New Englander (uncredited)
- Du Barry, Woman of Passion as D'Aiguillon
- The Bad One as Prosecutor
- One Heavenly Night as Prefect of Police
- East Is West as Mr. Benson
- The Way of All Men as Sharp
- Good Intentions as Butler
1929
- Coquette as Jasper Carter
- The Valiant as Judge
- Love, Live & Laugh as Enrico
- Pleasure Crazed as Col. Farquar
1928
- Don't Marry as General Willoughby
- The Beautiful Spy as Viceroy Cisneros
- Soft Living as Rodney S. Bowen
- Midnight Rose as Corbin
1927
- A Kiss in a Taxi as Leon Lambert
1926
- Wet Paint as A Husband
- The Palace of Pleasure as Don Sebastian, Premier
- Hell's Four Hundred as John Gilmore
1925
- Sally, Irene and Mary as Marcus Morton
- Any Woman as Egbert Phillips
1924
- I Will Repay ... (Director)
- The Great Well ... (Director)
1923
- Sant'Ilario ... (Director)
- The Leopardess ... (Director)
- The Purple Highway ... (Director)
- The Snow Bride ... (Director)
1921
- A Man of Stone as (Uncredited)
- Disraeli ... (Director)
- The Fighter ... (Director)
- Bucking the Tiger ... (Director)
1920
- The Greatest Love ... (Director)
- The Third Generation ... (Director)
- The Palace of Darkened Windows ... (Director)
- Heart of Twenty ... (Director)
1919
- Blackie's Redemption as Fred the Count
- The Woman Michael Married ... (Director)
- A Man's Country ... (Director)
- The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns as Kaiser Wilhelm II
- The Parisian Tigress as Henri Dutray
- The Brat as A Dandy
- Her Purchase Price as Duke of Wryden
1918
- The House of Mirth as Lawrence Selden
- Social Hypocrites as Dr. Frank Simpson
- The Shell Game as Lawrence Gray
1916
- Gloria's Romance as Dr. Stephen Royce
1915
- The Warning as Robert Denman
- The Man with the Iron Heart ... (Story)
- How Molly Malone Made Good as Himself